[jffry]

> My app's value is its simplicity

With or without the advent LLMs, it's an uphill battle to build a moat around a small (but nice!) wrapper around the output of a command-line tool shipped with MacOS.

> what is the moat?

Increasingly, and sadly, it's online services with a monthly subscription and no data portability. Get users in with a generous free tier and pull up the drawbridge so they can't get out easily.

[tTarnMhrkm]

Thanks, I really appreciate the honest take. With this app, I'm intentionally trying to go against that dominant modern playbook.

My goal was to build a classic, single-purchase utility that does one thing well and doesn't require an account or a subscription.

[jffry]

I appreciate you having a go and it does look very attractive. It's not a problem I have but $5 is a reasonable request for something that gets the info into an understandable format for somebody.

I do think that small, single-purpose apps are probably the easiest lunch to eat. Narrowly scoped greenfield projects are where the LLMs seem to excel right now so that game seems like a race to the bottom.

As far as the cloning goes: your only recourse is probably the DMCA angle for the exact duplicate text. It's a shame they're so lazy as to straight copy it, but I suspect the response (if any) will be them lightly laundering it through ChatGPT so it's no longer the same.

Good luck! And I hope you find more useful ideas people might pay for

[tTarnMhrkm]

Yeah this makes sense.

Thanks, this app is just one pit stop of many!